Ancient Qur’an manuscript discovered to have been written over erased Bible manuscript

Friday, April 27, 2018

Jihad Watch : The academics are enthused. “This is a very important discovery for
the history of the Qur’an and early Islam,” says Eléonore Cellard. “It’s
quite extraordinary,” bubbles Romain Pingannaud, and “very relevant.”

Relevant to what? Pingannaud apparently means that it’s relevant to the contact between Christian and Muslim communities today.

Very well. Let’s examine the implications of this discovery in light
of its contemporary relevance. Qur’anic palimpsests, that is,
manuscripts in which the Qur’anic text is written over another text that
has been erased, are rare. Why? “We think this is because the Qur’an is
such an important text and although vellum was very expensive, the
Qur’an was always written on new material. It’s highly revered and so
they would use brand new material,” says Pingannaud.

But not this time. This one is written over a passage of the Old
Testament. The scholars seem to think that is wonderful. “We have here a
witness of cultural interactions between different religious
communities,” says Cellard. Pingannaud says that “it shows the contact
between communities in the first centuries of Islam.” “Passages from the Bible discovered behind Qur’an manuscript,” by Alison Flood, Guardian, April 25, 2018:

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